BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

believers who will do whatever God tells them to do. Believers with no reservations. Believers with no hesitations. Believers who are faithful in the big and small things. In other words: Believers who make following the Lord and doing what He says a priority, and a lifestyle. Remember the rich young ruler in Mark 10? When Jesus told him to "go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me," he couldn't do it (verse 21). The Bible says that ruler walked away grieved because he had so much. The truth is, he didn't have so much. His so much had him. If you can't give something that God has blessed you with, then you don't have it. It has you. Learn To Be Consistent Consistency is another major factor in qualifying for the maximum, highest level attainable. Proverbs 28:20 says, "A faithful man shall abound with blessings." Paul said in Galatians 6:9, "Let us not be weary in well doing." The well doing he was talking about is sowing. It's giving. He was talking about being consistent in giving. The Amplifi ed Bible, Classic Edition, says, "Don't lose heart and grow weary and faint." The Passion Translation adds, "The wonderful harvest you've planted is coming!" There comes a time when your consistency will penetrate a barrier and cause a divine fl ow. That's exciting! Something is happening in the Body of Christ. All that sowing and giving we've been doing is going to result in a divine fl ow that will produce the maximum, highest level attainable. I can't stress this enough: Be part of this committed and consistent group of believers. Be one of those who are willing to leave it all behind, give even when in the natural it doesn't look like it makes sense to do so, and be consistent in the big and small things. Those are the ones Jesus says can look forward to a hundredfold return—the maximum, highest level attainable. Let that be you! 2 4 : B V O V anymore. The Lord appeared and said, My people are in fi nancial famine, and I'm going to reveal to you the keys that will bring them out. I grabbed a notepad from the table next to the sofa, and started writing everything the Lord said to me. Later that night at the meeting, Brother Copeland sang a couple of songs and then opened his Bible to preach. He stopped. Then he shut his Bible and said, "Jerry, God visited you today. Come tell us what He said." I went up and preached a message from Genesis 26 titled "Sowing in Famine." In verse 12 of that chapter, it describes how, when Isaac sowed during a time of famine, he "received in the same year an hundredfold: and the™ LORD blessed him." By the time I fi nished teaching, the Lord revealed to me that my ministry was in fi nancial famine too. He instructed me to sow 10 checks of $1,000 each—one for each department and outreach in our ministry. It was a stretch because we needed hundreds of thousands of dollars for each of those departments or outreaches. I was determined to be faithful, though, and I knew right where those checks needed to go. In addition to the initial 10 checks, Carolyn and I sowed a $1,000 personal check into Kenneth Copeland Ministries. One week later, I received the fi rst hundredfold return on those checks. At a meeting in Tulsa, Brother Kenneth Hagin called me up on stage and gave me his airplane. By the end of that year, I had reaped a hundred times on every seed that I had sown! When people tell me, "This doesn't work," or "God didn't really mean that," they're too late. It's already happened too many times for me to deny that the maximum, highest level attainable exists. It's a Lifestyle Will every Christian experience a hundredfold, or the maximum, highest level attainable on what they give? I wish that were true, but it's not. Simply being a Christian doesn't qualify anyone. Read Mark 10:29-30 again. Is Jesus talking about every Christian? No, He's talking about deeply committed i Jerry Savelle is president and founder of Jerry Savelle Ministries International and founder of Heritage of Faith Christian Center in Crowley, Texas. For information or ministry materials, visit jerrysavelle.org. Watch Jerry Savelle on C H A N N E L Jerry Savelle on C H A N N E L Sun. 4:30 a.m. | 5:30 p.m. Tues. 2 p.m. | Fri. 6 a.m. | Midnight ET Watch

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